Transforming health markets in Asia and Africa : improving quality and access for the poor

1. Introduction / Gerald Bloom. [et al.] -- 2. Transition in the Indian healthcare market / Barun Kanjilal and Sumit Mazumdar -- 3. Lessons from an intervention programme to make informal health care providers effective in a rural area of Bangladesh / Mohammad Iqbal. [et al.] -- 4. Drug detailers and the pharmaceutical market in Bangladesh / M. Hafizur Rahman and Smisha Agarwal -- 5. China's rural hospitals in the transition to a market economy : a case study in two peri-urban counties in Guangxi province / Gerald Bloom. [et al.] -- 6. Informal markets in sexual and reproductive health services and commodities in rural and urban Bangladesh / Hilary Standing, Sabina Faiz Rashid, and Owasim Akram -- 7. Improving the performance of patent medicine vendors in Nigeria / Oladimeji Oladepo and Henry Lucas -- 8. Yes, they can : peer educators for diabetes in Cambodia / Maurits van Pelt. [et al.] -- 9. Evidence of the effects of market-based innovations and international initiatives to improve the performance of private providers / Claire Champion, Gerald Bloom, David Peters -- 10. A review of ICT innovations by private sector providers in developing countries / Henry Lucas -- 11. The economics of social franchising for health in low and middle income countries / David Bishai and Claire Champion -- 12. Conclusions : making health markets work better for poor people / Gerald Bloom. [et al].